Whitni Lauren Pinkerton, AGACNP

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

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Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

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Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

• Anderson Regional Medical Center Hospital · Meridian, MS

Colleagues at Cardiovascular Institute of the South, LLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 144 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Jean Claude Blanchard, NP Nurse Practitioner · Thibodaux, LA
• Dr. Marcus Cox, MD Cardiovascular Disease Physician · New Iberia, LA
• Miss. Briana Camille Garcia, FNP-BC Family Nurse Practitioner · Houma, LA
• Paritosh Kafle, MD Cardiovascular Disease Physician · Thibodaux, LA
• Jedediah David Meche, FNP Nurse Practitioner · Crowley, LA
• Kay Christine Melancon, AGACNP Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · Lafayette, LA
• Robert L Menuet II, MD Interventional Cardiology Physician · Opelousas, LA
• Shane Paul Prejean, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Houma, LA
• Dr. Charles Adrian Ray III, MD Diagnostic Radiology Physician · Meridian, MS
• Dr. Louis Salvaggio, MD Cardiovascular Disease Physician · Lafayette, LA
• Craig Michael Walker, MD Cardiovascular Disease Physician · Houma, LA
• Angelle Vosburg Whitty, FNP Nurse Practitioner · Baton Rouge, LA

Other providers in Meridian

• Elaine Annette Blount, NP

  Individual Gerontology Nurse Practitioner · NPI 1437768272

  2124 14th St, Meridian, MS 39301-4040 · (601) 553-6000

• Katherine Kate Bolden

  Individual Gerontology Nurse Practitioner · NPI 1750889416

  1666 Highway 19 S, Meridian, MS 39301-8209 · (601) 462-4121

• Mrs. Jenna Harper, AGPCNP-BC

  Individual Gerontology Nurse Practitioner · NPI 1568911527

  4711 Poplar Springs Dr, Meridian, MS 39305-2622 · (601) 485-7777

• Christy L Savell, NP

  Individual Gerontology Nurse Practitioner · NPI 1093488785

  2124 14th St, Meridian, MS 39301-4040 · (601) 553-6000

• Miles Wagner, AGACNP-BC

  Individual Gerontology Nurse Practitioner · NPI 1356056873

  2124 14th St, Meridian, MS 39301-4040 · (601) 553-6000